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Avec près de 320 000 participants, le Sony World Photography Awards de 2018 ont devoilé leur shortlist d’images exceptionnelles. Nous jetons un coup d’oeil aux candidats de cette année pour le concours Open, où les admissions sont jugées sur une seule image sur des sujets divers allant de la photographie de rue au paysage ou la nature. Découvrez ci-dessous les superbes images présélectionnées, et visitez le site web pour voir les autres.
© Chaoyang Cai, China, Shortlist, Open, Architecture, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Lester Koh, Singapore, Shortlist, Open, Architecture, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Jianguang Zhou, China, Shortlist, Open, Enhanced, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Nikolay Gorbunov, Russian Federation, Shortlist, Open, Landscape & Nature, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Fajar Kristianto, Indonesia, Shortlist, Open, Motion, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Andreas Hemb, Sweden, Shortlist, Open, Motion, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Valentina Morrone, Italy, Shortlist, Open, Portraiture, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Tina Signesdottir hult, Norway, Shortlist, Open, Portraiture, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Masumi Shiohara, Japan, Shortlist, Open, Still Life, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Michele Fornaciari, Italy, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Thanasorn Janekankit, Thailand, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Irene Sollecchia, Italy, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography (Open competition), 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© John White, United Kingdom, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Yijie Quan, China, Shortlist, Open, Travel, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Yen Sin Wong, Malaysia, Shortlist, Open, Travel, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Jonas Börnicke, Germany, Shortlist, Open, Travel, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Petar Sabol, Croatia, Shortlist, Open, Wildlife, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
© Pedro Jarque Krebs, Peru, Shortlist, Open, Wildlife, 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
New York architecture firm MKCA has gutted an outdated apartment in the West Village, transforming its dim interiors into light-filled spaces.
Bank Street Apartment is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom property that has been redesigned to make the most of its angular floor plan.
Local firm Michael K Chen Architecture (MKCA) overhauled the residence for a professional couple who already had a notable collection of artwork, furnishings and decorative pieces.
The studio added custom millwork made from bleached ash to add more storage space, integrating a bar, entertaining area, work space, and a pull-out television.
This cabinetry allows the residents to hide away their possessions, and gives the impression of more space.
Another feature of the redesign is a kitchen that now opens out onto a living room and dining nook.
Originally a narrow galley enclosed with walls, the new food preparation area has natural light with an airy feel. The countertop was extended, and anchored with a block of Vermont marble.
A continuous window sill runs the width of the apartment, updating the existing series of black-ribboned sash windows to provide space for displaying art and decorative pieces.
A new room formed by a large sliding pocket door creates a private home office when closed. Other subtle changes to the existing floor plan include a smaller guest room and a redesigned dining area.
In the dining space is custom-made banquette designed by the architecture studio and fabricated by New York designer Martin Albert. The white oak dining table was also designed by MKCA, and built by JHWorks.
A master bedroom has been redesigned with an ensuite, while a powder room is now located off the kitchen. The placement of doors has also changed, drastically improving routes around the apartment.
All of the walls are painted white, with light countertops and marble accents. Existing white oak floors were refinished in oil, with new recessed lighting and motorised rolling shades to update the space.
Apartments in New York City are constantly updated and refreshed to suit ever-changing occupants. Other examples completed recently include a nearby penthouse with a new rooftop deck and pool, a minimal loft apartment for a photographer and two properties joined together with archways to form a much bigger home in Tribeca.
Photography is by Alan Tansey.
Project credits:
Project team: Braden Caldwell and Michael Chen
General contractor: Structure NYC
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Mexico City-based architect Rozana Montiel has completed a four-bedroom home in Tepoztlán, using local materials as a way to integrate the home into its natural setting.
The Albino Ortega House sits on a 460-square-metre plot full of vegetation in the town, which lies to the south of the capital within a valley of the same name. The single-family home was built from locally sourced stone, which forms external walls and is also left exposed in indoor-outdoor spaces.
“This house located in Tepoztlán has an artisanal base, made of Texcal stone, occupied by part of the house’s programme,” said Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura. “It changes from an outside hermetic facade to a great open space that integrates the garden’s exuberant vegetation.”
Access to the house is via a flight of narrow stone steps. Beyond the entrance, a partially covered courtyard with a pool at its centre creates an area for relaxing in the shade.
“Water is present both inside and outside the house, refreshing all spaces, filling them with air and sound,” said the architecture firm.
Next to the courtyard is a guest bedroom, a den, and the live-in maid’s quarters. Beyond the shallow pond, the kitchen runs along the north wall of the home, along with the dining table and a small seating area.
These spaces extend to the courtyard outside, which can be taken advantage of when the weather is warm. “The house intertwines interior and exterior all the way to the terrace and the great open garden,” said the studio.
The upper floor only occupies part of the plan, leaving open an expansive rooftop terrace, from which the residents can peer into the entry court below.
Three bedrooms on this level each has have their own ensuite bathroom. Large doors in the master bedroom swing open towards views of the garden. The volume is clad in wood, to contrast the rest of the building.
Throughout the home, the architects chose simple furnishings with an emphasis on traditional Mexican craft, which the area of Tepoztlán is known for. These pieces, and other accents like slatted wooden doors, help tie together the project.
Many buildings in and around Mexico City are constructed using local materials and traditional techniques. Other examples include a home organised around two courtyards that was built using teak wood and mud bricks, and a house with a modernist aesthetic that incorporates volcanic stone.
Photography is by Sandra Pereznieto.
Project credits:
Collaborators: Alin V Wallach, Ombeline de Laage
Constructor: Max García
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A travers le projet « Architectonics », le photographe et designer Adriano Rodrigues a voulu capturer sous un autre angle la ville d’Albany, située dans l’Etat de New York. Ainsi, il a réalisé une série de photos des monuments de sa région, en s’attachant aux détails architecturaux que certains endroits pouvaient avoir. Pour donner plus d’impact à ses clichés, l’artiste a opté pour du noir et blanc. Le rendu est splendide. Son travail est à découvrir sur Behance et sur son site.
The interiors and graphics of some of the world’s most famous nightclubs are profiled in a major new exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum.
Night Fever officially opened today at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
The gallery has been filled with photographs, flyers, artworks and records relating to some of the world’s most iconic nightclubs, dating from the 1960s to present day. Among them are Manchester’s Hacienda and the iconic Studio 54 in New York.
The exhibition aims to explore the “relationship between club culture and design”, looking to the nightclub as a point of inspiration for architects and designers alike.
Organised in a chronological order, exhibits includes a site-specific music and light installation created by Konstantin Grcic and lighting designer Matthias Singer.
“The nightclub is one of the most important design spaces in contemporary culture,” said Vitra. “Since the 1960s, nightclubs have been epicentres of pop culture, distinct spaces of nocturnal leisure providing architects and designers all over the world with opportunities and inspiration.”
“The multidisciplinary exhibition reveals the nightclub as much more than a dance bar or a music venue; it is an immersive environment for intense experiences.”
Visitors enter the exhibition in the 1960s, where designs from clubs including New York’s Electric Circus and Florence’s Space Electronic are on show.
In this section, Italy’s so-called “radical period” – a movement that saw creative practices take on an avant-garde style – is also explored.
Venues associated with the radical period are profiled, including the multifunctional Piper space in Turin, designed by Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi and Riccardo Rosso with a modular interior.
Moving onto the 1970s, Night Fever looks to the influence of New York’s Studio 54. Founded in 1977 by Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, the club gained cult status thanks to its celebrity visitors and opulent interiors.
Much of the 80s section focuses on Manchester’s Hacienda, which featured post-industrial style interiors by architect and designer Ben Kelly.
The influence of the Hacienda and its impact on the acid-house genre spread to Berlin in the early 1990s – a period detailed in the next section of the exhibition.
Soon after the Berlin Wall came down, ravers began occupying disused and derelict spaces to create clubs, such as Trezor. Organisers would send out details of parties through flyers, which often followed a heavily graphic aesthetic emblazoned with lo-fi typography.
In 2004, Berlin became home to Berghain, which is located inside a former heating plant.
“[This demonstrated] yet again how a vibrant club scene can flourish in the cracks of the urban fabric, on empty lots and in vacant buildings,” said Vitra.
Finally, the exhibition looks to the complexities of modern-day nightclub design.
“On the one hand, club culture is thriving and evolving as it is adopted by global brands and music festivals; on the other, many nightclubs have been pushed out of the city or survive merely as sad historical monuments and modern ruins of a hedonistic past,” said the curators.
“At the same time, a new generation of architects is addressing the nightclub typology,” they added.
Those thought to be part of this include Dutch firm OMA, which developed a proposal for a new Ministry of Sound club in London in 2015, but which was scrapped shortly after.
Having been briefed by the nightclub owners, the architects proposed a building that changes its shape from night to day, through walls that mechanically lift up and down.
Night Fever is open to the public from 17 March to 9 September 2018.
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Danish studio NORD Architects has completed a multipurpose sports facility in Copenhagen’s developing Ørestad City area.
Featuring a cluster of timber volumes that fan out from a central point to define different functional zones, the building is located alongside Bjarke Ingels‘ iconic Mountain Dwellings complex.
In comparison to its neighbour, the sports facility designed by NORD Architects is a modest building positioned on a plot that was originally planned to contain a pocket park.
“This multipurpose building is developed and designed to be a vibrant urban space that creates new communities and social sustainability within the giant structures of the big buildings and long boulevards in Ørestad City,” said Morten Gregersen, a partner at NORD Architects.
The architects conducted a series of workshops with a group of potential end users to determine the optimum programmatic requirements for the facility, which informed its flexible and fully accessible design.
The building is open to the public all day and all night, providing spaces that can be used by school classes or local sports clubs for a variety of activities.
The plan comprises three rectilinear volumes with angled roofs that collide in the centre, resulting in a fractured form that clearly distinguishes the different functional areas.
Internally, the space is largely open so it can be used flexibly. Only one of the three volumes is partitioned from the rest of the interior, providing privacy and acoustic insulation if needed.
The enclosed room is also the only part of the building that is heated, allowing it to be used as a meeting room or cafe, or as a studio for dance, yoga, martial arts and other small group activities.
The main multifunctional space is large enough to be used for team sports such as basketball or football. Alternatively, it can also host community events such as flea markets.
A permanent climbing wall for bouldering is installed on the end wall of one of the three arms. Its brightly coloured panels stand out against the otherwise muted monochrome interior.
“This place is a kind of shelter for local sports and social events, and in this way is an invitation to both creativity, activity and recreation,” added NORD Architects partner, Johannes Molander Pedersen.
“It is built as a light structure that welcomes openness and unpredictability in this otherwise fully planned urban area, and we are sure it will generate social interaction and liveability in Ørestad City.”
The entrance is incorporated into the lowest point of the building to give it a more human scale that ensures it feels welcoming to the local community and passers by.
A band of glazing that extends from the entrance around the base of the facility allows views into the activity areas from the surrounding park.
All of the surfaces above the glazing are clad in vertical timber boards that lend the structure a homogenous aesthetic so it seems to have no discernible front or back.
The wooden cladding complements the natural setting of the park and is topped with a planted roof that introduces additional greenery to the area.
Ørestad City is a government-subsidised district outside Copenhagen, connected to the city and Malmö in Sweden on the other side of the nearby Øresund Bridge.
The first office building in Ørestad was completed in 2001 and the neighbourhood has evolved gradually since then, with significant projects including the VM Houses apartment buildings designed by Ingels and Julien De Smedt, and the leaning towers of the AC Hotel Bella Sky Copenhagen by 3XN.
NORD Architects has previously completed a hospice for palliative patents featuring golden facades that curve around a series of quiet courtyards, and has designed a marine education centre in Malmö with a large roof that overhangs an external aquatic learning space.
Photography is by Adam Mørk.
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Guillaume Dutreix est un photographe français qui a réalisé le projet « Playground Flavor ». Il a capturé pendant son voyage à Hong Kong, les terrains de jeux cachés au milieu des immenses buildings de la ville. Il a essayé de mettre en évidence le contraste entre cette architecture austère mais puissante et la couleur et la simplicité de ces terrains. Son travail est à découvrir sur Behance et sur Instagram.
This week on Dezeen, a sexual harassment scandal led to architect Richard Meier stepping down from his company and Cornell architecture school abandoning plans to name a position in his honour.
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect said he was “deeply troubled and embarrassed” after the New York Times published accusations of sexual harassment against him by five female colleagues. Dezeen readers suggested that architecture was starting its own #MeToo movement.
World first’s were the hot topic of the week, as the world’s first flying car launched at the Geneva Motor Show and construction of the world’s tallest tower started up again after delays.
In India, Zaha Hadid Architects won a competition to design a major new international airport for Mumbai. Then in Pune, India, the newly opened Trump Towers also made the news this week, as President Donald Trump’s son praised the hotel’s interiors, by Matteo Nunziati, as the “best he has seen”.
Sustainable design was an important talking point this week, as we covered SOM’s Paris garden skyscraper, expected to become “one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe”, and a concept tyre designed to absorb moisture from the road and turn it into oxygen.
And in the US, Shepard Fairey launched a pair of posters protesting gun violence in schools.
In tech news, Apple filed a patent for a keyboard that is resistant to crumbs, while Ben van Berkel of UNStudio launched a startup that will develop technologies to make buildings healthier and cities smarter.
Other architecture studios in the headlines included BIG, which unveiled a bow-tie-shaped theatre for Albania, and MAD, whose Lucus Museum broke ground in Los Angeles this week.
Also this week, our Move The Needle initiative found that international architecture and design awards programmes are striving to improve gender balance among judges – following the example of the upcoming Dezeen Awards.
Instagrammable interiors also proved popular, including the dusty pink seats and multicoloured marble floors inside Tel Aviv restaurant Cafeteria, and the graphic green tiles of Medly Pharmacy in Brooklyn.
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